The Employment Non-Discrimination Act passed out of a critical committee vote today, and the law will soon be voted on by the full House of Representatives. The critical language, supplementing the Civil Rights Act of 1964, is: It shall be… Continue Reading
The Queen’s Bench in Britain issued a ruling recently regarding Nobel Prize winner Al Gore’s landmark documentary, An Inconvenient Truth. Of particular interest is the manner in which the court addressed “scientific errors” in the movie, although the opinion is… Continue Reading
In Palmdale, California, it seems that upgrading one intersection from a four-way stop to a four-way traffic light costs taxpayers $815,000. (Now is the appropriate time to let out a long, low whistle.)
I find Vice President Al Gore’s winning of the Nobel Peace Prize, for his work publicizing global warming and related environmental problems, to not sit well with me. I’m not alone in this. I have two problems with the award.… Continue Reading
If you enjoy air travel, you’ll see the genius in this Indian entrepreneur’s new business. For those of us who would prefer a night in a Turkish prison to contemporary air travel, it is beyond perversity.
Aayan Hirsi Ali is the modern face of courage and enlightenment. The political leaders of the Netherlands, by contrast, are proving themselves to be craven and short-sighted. A quick biography: Hirsi Ali was born in Somalia, the daughter of a… Continue Reading
My favorite new prominent international villain, Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, received a chillier, and more sharply critical, reception today at Tehran University than he got at Columbia a few weeks ago. By the way, the word “villain” traces its etymology to… Continue Reading
Senator Larry Craig’s petition to withdraw his plea of guilty to a charge of disorderly conduct in a Minneapolis airport restroom has been denied. The judge was not kind to the Senator’s petition, characterized as “illogical”: “During the two months… Continue Reading
A mysterious object fell in rural Peru; many think it’s a meteor and a crew is on its way to verify that. And it seems to be making people quite sick. This is the sort of thing you read about… Continue Reading
Longtime readers know that I am not a believer in the supernatural and critical of religion. I must restrain myself from cheering on other critics of religion from time to time, but today it was easier than in other circumstances… Continue Reading